Five things I didn't know before reading the powerpoint
  1. Russia was already in a bad economic state before World War I
  2. That there was a Russian Revolution...in 1917
  3. There was a killing of the royal family
  4. The KGB came out of it
  5. There was a Russian civil war that lasted 2 years
Long term Cause:
Explanation
Connection, comments, questions, connections…
Russia’s large land mass

Russia was too large to rule and comprised 125 million people
Does Russia have provinces,states, etc…?
Russia was backwards

Had few roads and wasn’t fully industrialized. Most Russians were peasants.
Does communism make them seem backwards as well?